RE: MI housekeeping

1999-10-25 Thread Martin Roundill
isn't that what metadata is for? (not sure what you mean by "..when the preference file was redone...") Martin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 1999 14:30 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI housekeeping > > yo

RE: MI I've lost my Universal Translater - (if I ever had it.)

1999-10-25 Thread Martin Roundill
Clifford Why not install it on another machine - copy all the files and subdirectories from the 'UT' directory to your machine and reset the tool manager to point to the 'mut.mbx' file. Then uninstall mapinfo from the temporary machine. Cheers Martin === Martin

Re: MI I've lost my Universal Translater - (if I ever had it.)

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Busque
Hello! Clifford You should take a look in /MapInfo/Professional/UT UT = Universal Translator. If you find it, then click Imutgui.exe Or you can search "Imutgui.exe" with windows search capability. Good luck! Patrick -Message d'origine- De : Clifford Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [E

MI Drawing in layout window

1999-10-25 Thread Laith Wark
Friends, For some (bizarre) reason in MI 5I, I now cannot draw in my layout windows!!! There's nothing logical to this, yesterday I could draw, add frames, text...anything. Today nothing. Is there a way to change it??? Thanks in advance, Laith PS I've already tried speaking nicely. =

MI housekeeping

1999-10-25 Thread Figuers
you are correct in that with lots of working files it is easier to keep track of what is what with a good filing - naming system. However, there is still a gapping hole in the MapInfo system. What do you do about the odd ball files or the older files that everyone has forgotten about? There

RE: MI SUM: Housekeeping

1999-10-25 Thread Laith Wark
Thanks to all who responded. It seems there are many ways to structure directories with workspaces and tables, depending on how tidy a person you are. However in sum check the following: Have a look at Wor

MI max size of symbols in graduated symbol thematic map

1999-10-25 Thread Tim Warman
Does anyone know of a way to get the largest symbol in a graduated size thematic map to be larger than 48 points? On an A0 size map the symbols need to be a lot larger to avoid disappearing into the detail of the map. I'm hoping for something on the order of 72 points or larger. Oh, it's v5.0. On

MI PAMAP format

1999-10-25 Thread Dyan Catamaran
Hi users I am working in a project that uses a set of PAMAP data format. I would like to translate then for shape or MapInfo. Is there any utility that converts from PAMAP to other most common formats? I would appreciate any help. Dyan C. Catamaran GIS/RS Depto. Coord. Phero Tech Inc. Forest

MI MIDB_BLOB_SIZE

1999-10-25 Thread Jose Marcos
Hi, I'm trying to fetch maps from our database through ODBC. I get an error saying that some objects were lost because the size was too big and it tells me to change my settings in MIDB_BLOB_SIZE. The problem is I can't find where this MIDB_BLOB_SIZE is located in the registry. Is anybody fami

MI Great GIS Site

1999-10-25 Thread Ryan Galbraith
We have just completed our GIS Day site and was wondering if anyone on the list had any comments. We are featuring a Mapinfo demonstration of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as well as lots of other activities. If you get the chance check out our information at: http://www.develtech.ca/news.htm Than

MI Saving Map Window Sans Border

1999-10-25 Thread Hans Vidkjer
Hello, Trying to save a map window as a jpeg w/o a border. Possible? TIA Hans Vidkjer -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: MI SUM: Simulated click

1999-10-25 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Paul, > I was trying to activate a MB link to plume modelling software (aloha). UK based partner Dotted Eyes have a MapInfo/Aloha link. Perhaps they have already done what you are trying to achieve. Their web site is at http:/www.dottedeyes.com Follow the link to the MapInfo utilities pag

MI Setting the side of a mapper window

1999-10-25 Thread Lavoie, Claude
Hi all! I am trying , through the following bit of code, to open a mapper centered on a certain location at a certain scale, and resize the window to a certain dimension. The values and the variables they are in are: Ecran_XCentre_Al: X coordinate of mapper center point, Ec

Re: MI Correcting Projections

1999-10-25 Thread ChuckLock
In a message dated 10/25/99 2:07:10 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I had 30 files created in the wrong UTM zone. I changed them by hand using > MIF export/import to save the styles but am wondering if anyone has > automated this process at all? Not exactly. I recently downloaded a utilit

MI: Ordnance Survey Topo Data

1999-10-25 Thread Map Library
Hello Everyone. I've been trying to track down a supplier for topographic data of Great Britain. I have contacted the Canadian supplier for OS but they directed me straight to the OS (Ordnance Survey) for digital data. So I emailed them and they said I have to phone Britain to get the info I want.

MI scroll with cursor keys

1999-10-25 Thread Jack MacDonald
With MI Pro 4.5, is there any way to change the behaviour of the cursor keys (up, down, pageUp, pageDown) in the browser? I would prefer to have them move through records rather than scrolling the window. I have MapBasic if it requires programming to alter the behaviour of the keys. Thanks

MI I've lost my Universal Translater - (if I ever had it.)

1999-10-25 Thread Clifford Forbes
Hi All I upgraded a few months ago from 4.52 to 5.01. At the time, I didn't check to make sure I still had UT in 5.01. Now all of a sudden I need it and can't find it. Of course, 4.52 is long gone. I did read that I could get it (back) if I re-installed 5.01. My problem with that is that i

MI New Mailing List

1999-10-25 Thread Ted Florence
There is a new online mailing list I found on the subject of cartography. I thought you'd be interested so here is the info. To subscribe, go to http://cartography.listbot.com Regards -- Ted Florence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take our survey at http://www.avenza.com/products.survey.html MAPublisher - Th

Re: MI Area calc tools for MapXtreme Java

1999-10-25 Thread Antoine Gilbert
Hi Nothing in mapJ for calculate a polygon's area... but, you can get all the points of a polygon( VectorGeometry ) I suppose that it's possible to find an algorithm to calculate an polygon area given its nodes and the projection... ___ ||//Anto

Re: MapXtreme MI Grid support

1999-10-25 Thread Antoine Gilbert
no ___ ||//Antoine Gilbert || // [EMAIL PROTECTED] || //#ICQ 9737371 || \\ || \\Le Groupe KOREM Inc. ||\\ http://www.korem.com ___ - Original Message - Fr

MI: Check out Northwood’s new web site

1999-10-25 Thread James Harvie
Visit www.northwoodgeo.com to see the redesigned Northwood web site. Look for new free downloads, expanded information on software and data offerings, a new reseller section, and a new search engine! Feedback is welcome. Please direct your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. James HarvieVertical

MI Correcting Projections

1999-10-25 Thread George M. Smith
I had 30 files created in the wrong UTM zone. I changed them by hand using MIF export/import to save the styles but am wondering if anyone has automated this process at all? Or might know of a search and replace utility of any sort that would operate on a "batch" of MIF's? There are a number of op

MI Natural Resource and Geospatial Workshops for 1999

1999-10-25 Thread Holly Nelson
1999 TRAINING WORKSHOPS U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NATIONAL WETLAND RESEARCH CENTER & MID-CONTINENT MAPPING CENTER IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF

Re: MI Area calc tools for MapXtreme Java

1999-10-25 Thread Jack Varga
Weaknesses, yes. Right direction? Absolutely! Although we have encountered some shortcomings, for the most part MI has been fairly expediant in helping us resolve. Try getting ESRI to do the same. The last app I built was using ESRI's industrial strength IMS. What a kluge that was. As fo

RE: MI New Zealand Topographic Data

1999-10-25 Thread Matt.Wilkie
The orginal press release is at: http://www.linz.govt.nz/publications/media/index.html >Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) have just announced >a large fee reduction for LINZ held digital topographic data >of New Zealand. [...] --

MI SUM: Simulated click

1999-10-25 Thread Brown Paul
Title: MI SUM: Simulated click Thanks to all those that responded.   I had  with various useful suggestions including: search command,  SearchPoint, SearchRect, set map window & SelChangedHandler. However, my original message was obviously not very clear about what I wanted, as all of thes

RE: MI Housekeeping

1999-10-25 Thread Bruce Blais
Laith; Keep everything on the server and keep all of the printer, drive mapping and directory structures consistent. We operate over a 100BaseT network without trouble, unless someone starts bending the "rules" on how tables are created named, stored, etc. To develop our "rules" we outlined ho

MI Mapinfo co-ordinates

1999-10-25 Thread Lepage, Mike L (Mike)** CTR **
Hello List. I have two questions. First, I have 33,000 polygons of building footprints which I use the centroidx and centroidy function in mapinfo to get the lat/long values. Problem is that mapinfo does not give enough decimal places for accuracy. Anyone know a way around this or a way to get

MapXtreme MI Grid support

1999-10-25 Thread ton
Hi, Does anyone know if the MapInfo Grid format is supported in the latest version of MapXtreme (MapX) Is it also yet possible to do data binding against MS ado ? Kind regards, Ton Brouwer -- To unsubscribe from this list,

MI Subtotalling Records

1999-10-25 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi all, Can anybody help with this please? I have a table of approx 2 records recording data collected with a GPS receiver and an automatic logging device. The structure of the table is Lat, Lon, and then 50 columns of automatic readings ie Lat,Long, Reading1,Reading2,Reading3,etc,etc,etc,Rea

Re: MI Transcad

1999-10-25 Thread Andy
For clustering I would recommend Bailey and Gatrell's Interactive Spatial Data Analysis ISBN: 0-582-24493-5 - Original Message - From: Haavard Bøgh-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 10:11 AM Subject: MI Transcad > > hello > Mapinfo: > 1)Is

MI Reading Cognos Cubes

1999-10-25 Thread ton
Hi, Anyone out there who can tell me if it is possible to read data directly from a Cognos cube ? One of my clients wants to be able to create MapInfo maps based on such data. The maps should be analised further using MapInfo so just a simple visualisation (Cognos VIS) is not sufficient. Cognos

MI Transcad

1999-10-25 Thread Haavard Bøgh-Olsen
hello Mapinfo: 1)Is there anyone who knows if there excists useful literature in markets and clustering for MapInfo, somthing more than the manuals?? Trnascad: 2)And does anyone know if someone has written somthing useful and a bit more precise about the "vehicle routing" procedures for transcad